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"I wished to honor Grandmother and Grandfather by offering the Pipe Ceremony according to their tradition. nowing the specificity of some Lakota rituals, I asked Grandma which colors of cloth I should use to make the tobacco ties. She asked, 'What are your colors?' I told her my personal colors, received during dreams and visions: red cloth for the East, yellow for the South, black for the West, and white for the North-coincidentally, the colors used by some of my Cree relatives when they conduct ceremony. I also add green for earth, blue for sky, and one more secret color that represents the healing pwoer of the Great Mystery. Seven colors in total. Grandma said, 'Waste' = That is good.' "

"I try to model and teach the qualities that I associate with each of the Four Winds in my work as an educator and a healer. I am not the first to assert that there are common, though not universally held, associations with the Four Winds. During the last thirty years of the twentieth century, many Native American educators created Pan-Indian medicine wheels of the Four Winds that affirm common, shared values across Indian Country." (See endnote #13 on page 354.)

(see endnote #12 on page 354: "As I found out later, the standardization of the Four Wind color symbolism among the Lakota is a recent phenomenon, probably dating only from the 1970s. See William K. Powers, Sacred Language: Th Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986, page 143). Yet, it is important to note that some ceremonies, among the Lakota and other tirbes, are relatively invariable and do use very specific colors and symbols."

(See endnote #13 on page 354:

August 13, 2025, 4:30 PM

INSERT MY MEDICINE WHEEL AND PHOTOS FROM NOTEBOOK #1

July 19, 2025, 4:09 PM

AS IN "THE MEDICINE WHEEL"